The chief executive of private equity firm Partners Group was in Australia last week to meet investors and talk to CEOs of potential target companies.
Partners Group chief executive David Layton’s visit to Australia last week was three-fold: meet the private equity firm’s 25-strong Sydney staff; catch up with CEOs of potential target companies; and meet the cashed-up investors ploughing capital into private equity funds.to Andrew Forrest’s Squadron Energy in December, Mr Layton said the Swiss-based Partners wanted to do as many as two investments a year in Australia, which accounts for about 10 per cent of its global client capital.
The Partners boss, who is based in the US state of Colorado, said the firm was in no hurry to sell CWP. Partners conducted a global roadshow and shopped the assets to numerous suitors – companies he would not disclose – and “figured out very quickly who the potential buyers were”.Mr Layton, alongside his head of Australia Martin Scott, wants to do more energy infrastructure investing similar to what Partners did with CWP, where the firm can build a series of assets from scratch.
for the company as investors were forced to take stock of what the medical services space would look like in the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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